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It is not entirely unusual that the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel sfall some year in the same work. Sometimes editorial inertia has these things. In 2018, for example, the two most prestigious awards in the field of fantasy and science fiction literature awarded The Stone Sky of N.K. Jemisin. The same was the case in 2014 with Ann Leckie's Assistant Justice and in 2012 with Jo Walton's Strangers. It's something that may be curious, but not unheard of.
That's why no one was surprised that, in its recent 2019 editions, both literary awards were about Mary Robinette's novel The calculating stars, a well-drawn uchronic story that takes as its starting point the devastating consequences of the meteor impact on the planet. However, there was something in that awards turnout that caught the attention of many, and it was the large number of critics and specialized forums that highlighted such a fact as the industry's first major recognition of hopepunkliterature.
We've all ever heard of cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, even solarpunk... but what is hopepunk? This is such a recent concept that for a large part of the public it is still an enigma. The term was coined by writer Alexandra Rowland in July 2017 to refer to a...
